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j1-2k8-mtW09: Marge: Java Bluetooth Framework
The idea of this Mini-Talk on Community Corner is to show a little about Bluetooth, JSR 82 (Java Apis for Bluetooth) and Project Marge. Tired of big texts, full descriptions, etc? Watch this, this and this! Jul. 23, 2008

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I'm back from JavaOne 2008 and it was great!: Hello again everybody. I just had a busy week, cause I went to JavaOne 2008 :)
Posted by lucastorri on May 16, 2008 at 10:24 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

New project Marge version! I'm not kidding...: Today, we are proud to announce a new version of the project Marge! [Time for thinking...] Yeah, that's true! This is not an April 1st joke :)
Posted by lucastorri on April 01, 2008 at 10:49 PST | Permalink | Discuss (6)  

ZFS, Indiana, VirtualBox and a bunch of memory sticks: In the end of last year, I saw some slides from a presentation about ZFS from Sun, using a bunch of memory sticks to create a file system, and thought that very cool. Today, I found an article called "Playing with ZFS, USB memory disks and VMware Fusion" and decided to try it myself, but in a different way, using VirtualBox instead of VMware.
Posted by lucastorri on March 30, 2008 at 21:57 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Tri-Boot System: Linux, Solaris and Windows: I just finished to setup my laptop with a Tri-Boot System with Ubuntu Linux, Solaris 10 and Windows Vista. Here are some tricks I discovered during this process.
Posted by lucastorri on March 18, 2008 at 07:52 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

I passed SCJA ;): Good news. Yesterday I took the Sun Certified Java Associate (http://www.sun.com/training/certification/java/scja.xml) exam and passed! Now, I would like to share this experience with you...
Posted by lucastorri on March 12, 2008 at 11:59 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

GUJavaSC new website: The last couple weeks we've been working in the new website from the "Grupo de Usuários Java de Santa Catarina" our local Java User Group from the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. It's in blog format and we want to provide news from the User Group and related to Java, as well as bringing together the local community. So, for everybody that can read Portuguese (or is interested in learn :), visit http://www.gujavasc.org.br
Posted by lucastorri on February 18, 2008 at 09:11 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Sun SPOT more Open Source than ever: After releasing the Squawk VM as Open Source, Sun announced yesterday that has open sourced the SPOT libraries as well, under GPLv2. SPOTs are small, Java-based, wireless devices developed at Sun Labs. This libraries include the code responsible for wireless communication, sensors control and security at the devices. The news was published in the forum and can be seen the the java.net project website: https://spots.dev.java.net/
Posted by lucastorri on January 30, 2008 at 08:33 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

NetBeans 6 T-shirt: September of last year I participated in a Contest at the netbeans.tv website, where the participants should share some photos or videos about the place where they live, work, etc. I created a entry about the city I live, Florianópolis. Unfortunately I didn't won the contest (the prize was a 1 GB Pen Drive and a Rich Client Programming Book), but at least I won a NetBeans T-shirt. Today I received a package with the T-shirt and it is great! The photos as usual aren't very good, but take a look...
Posted by lucastorri on January 17, 2008 at 10:26 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

RFID tags to tell a washer/dryer how to wash clothes: This is great! Technology to help us with domestic tasks. Designer Samgmin Bae has designed the clothTag, an RFID tag that could communicate with RFID enabled washers, dryers, irons, presses, and dry cleaning equipment, adjusting all settings automatically.
Posted by lucastorri on January 10, 2008 at 10:17 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)  

Adding a Humidity Sensor to Sun SPOT: Last month I got a Sun SPOT from a friend that came back from US and I can say that the kit is very cool and easy to use. Now, in my way to learn more about it I decided to add a Humidity Sensor to the board.
Posted by lucastorri on January 08, 2008 at 09:02 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Configuring a Sun Ray Server: Here in Fundação CERTI, where I'm alocated as a Campus Ambassador, we have received a donation of 17" screen Sun Rays and a great Workstation that I had the oportunity to install Solaris and Sun Ray Server on it.
Posted by lucastorri on December 22, 2007 at 12:31 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards: A few days ago, Sun announced that is going to sponsor Open Source community with $1M. In my opinion this is a great way to encourage students to get involved with Open Source projects.
Posted by lucastorri on December 14, 2007 at 05:43 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

UFSC Campus Ambassador and Ambassador kit: Since October I'm the Sun Campus Ambassador of Federal University of Santa Catarina. It's a great job, which I'm responsible to connect students and university to Sun Microsystems. Today I got surprised when a big box come in my house.
Posted by lucastorri on December 13, 2007 at 06:49 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

JustJava 2007 is open:
Posted by lucastorri on October 03, 2007 at 13:53 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Jython : Scripting for the Java language: Scripts languages are famous for their simplicity and ease of development. For this, they can be powerful Allies to software development. In this vast world of available scripting languages, one that really calls attention is Jython[http://www.jython.org]. Jython, is the Java implementation for the high-level Python language, allowing you to run Python on any Java platform.
Posted by lucastorri on September 24, 2007 at 16:18 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)  

Hello mama, I'm home: More and more, access control and other home automation stuff are being used and required. We are giving away part of our privacy to prior security and commodity.
Posted by lucastorri on September 03, 2007 at 19:51 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)  

Man, I feel... networked!: Have you ever heard about Personal Area Networks or simply, PAN? Like the name says, it is a kind of network. The difference off this one is that the communication is established between computers that are close to a Person, usually devices carried by this person (cell phones, PDA's, MP3 players, etc).
Posted by lucastorri on May 22, 2007 at 09:09 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

My predictions for the computers future: Yeah, that's my first post and what a better way to introduce myself than telling what I believe for the future. I'm not Nostradamus, but also give my shots.
Posted by lucastorri on May 15, 2007 at 20:19 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)